Since we came home from the holiday we’ve been spending lots and lots of time revising for the girls environmental management iGCSE.  I say we meaning all of us.   The girls have been working though past papers and Jonathan has had to be pretty much gagged to stop him answering all the questions.  This has shown me once [Continue]

There will at some point be a longer post featuring this basket but really could there be a better example of a home educators basket. Please note the organic cheese, the (looking as if it was)home made bread, the vegan puddings, the felted purse, the colourful diablo, fruit and Suma peanut butter.  Actually it could [Continue]

For lent we gave up eating meat  - well sort of.  I just decided I wouldn’t use meat at home – if people wanted to eat meat when they were out that was fine and we did eat meat when we went on holiday for a few days . We also decided that we would [Continue]

One of my on-line home-ed friends is hosting  “A Typical Home Ed Day in Photos” Carnival.  I thought I give it a go but have only managed to keep taking photos for 2 half days - I’ll have another proper go next week but here are my half days! So this is Wednesday a rather silly day to choose [Continue]

Well Martin and I have been married 20 years (a couple of weeks ago – I’m behind with our blogging). We exchanged some small gifts. Martin was very organised and bought these lovely earrings and necklace from our friend June with her lovely Goddess Jewels some time in advance.  However he wasn’t organised enough to remember to [Continue]

Now if I think you can learn quite a bit with a cardboard box then I think you can learn just about anything with food. Jonathan and I were participating in one of our favourite guilty pleasures (watching cookery programs)and were enjoying the Hairy Bikers one afternoon.  One of the recipes they made was a Swiss roll, [Continue]

We all know that small children love cardboard boxes, they can be sat in, tipped over and turned into pretty much anything with a bit of imagination – but can they do anything for an older child?  We spent a day where our main focus was directed by a box and this is what we [Continue]

For a few years I have been planning to celebrate Pi day but I kept missing it.  This year - despite the fact that we were really too busy – we decided we would clebrate it. Pi day is held on March 14th in American terms 3:14. I invited people from Our HE group to join us and we celebrated Pi [Continue]

So Thursday I am up relatively early as as we have not yet reached the end of the month I decided to make bread rather than buy any. This was a bit of a risk as I adapted Paul Hollywood’s cob loaf recipe to have about 1/3 whole wheat flour and some seeds in one loaf.  Until I [Continue]

I usually only blog the days were something of at least vague interest happens – but I am trying to blog all week so here goes with a nothing at all really day.  It’s OK for us to have some days like this they balance out the very active days. Start of the day persuade everyone to get up [Continue]